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"The direct sponsor does all the leg work, doing the hard and tedious task of sorting wheat from chaff. Statistics I've seen suggest that something like 2 out of 3,000 deals that a funded sponsor looks at will be funded. I don't have numbers on fundless sponsors, but it has to be worse.  That's a lot of chaff.  A"

"Branding as the road to riches The new tech economy, then, is not necessarily about building new technology. It is about capturing a sector with good branding, pots of money to fund growth, and the network effects to spur growth and retention. Holmes argues that half of the value of a company such as Google lies in its brand, in people instinctively thinking of Google when they want to search for something. It is the same for Facebook and social; Amazon and online shopping; and perhaps one day Uber and transportation."

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